Bigoted Cardinal O’Brien insists gay marriage is like slavery

Scottish Cardinal and leading bigot Keith O’Brien took to the airwaves this morning, attempting to defend his Sunday Telegraph op-ed in which he described gay marriage as “grotesque” and “shaming the country”, comparing such unions with, erm, slavery:

Imagine for a moment that the Government had decided to legalise slavery but assured us that “no one will be forced to keep a slave”.

Suggesting that the language used was “inflammatory”, the Today Programme’s John Humphrys claimed many people would think it was O’Brien’s rant which was “grotesque”, before asking: “You’re a Cardinal. Should you be using that kind of language, comparing … gay relationships with slavery?”

O’Brien, the Scottish Cardinal, seemed to be having a go at Cameron’s plans for gay marriage. This issue is being discussed separately in his own country’s parliament. Why would he chose to have a go at legislation that will not affect his own “flock”.

It wouldn’t be because Cameron’s government, in the form of Mrs Warsi, was too stupid to know that there was such a thing as a Scottish Cardinal, and neglected to invite him to their UK diplomatic visit to The Vatican a few weeks ago, and then tried to blame the oversight on the Vatican’s officials, would it?

Fewer and fewer people listen to Cardinals. The medieval rants of the likes of this man are hardly likely to persuade people to their way of thinking.

He reminds me a little of Mrs Robinson, late MP, AM, councillor, and wife of Northern Ireland’s first minister, who said that homosexuality was worse than paedophilia, a few weeks before it became public that the 60 year old was having a sexual relationship with a teenager.